title: A holistic approach to pain rehabilitation: the Boston Pain Unit.
abstract: The traditional management of chronic pain has generally encompassed such options as bed rest, physical therapy, potent medication, surgery and nerve blocks. Experience has demonstrated the importance of the multi-disciplinary team in the approach to chronic pain, particularly when the pain problem has eluded diagnosis and/or adequate treatment via conventional techniques. In an attempt to widen the patient's choice of treatment modalities, the pain unit has emerged as a concept effective for the management of chronic pain. Frequently, chronic pain patients represent the treatment failures of the medical system. By the time of admission to a pain unit, their lives have become significantly disrupted and their pain problem complicated by depression, disability, financial stress, vocational difficulties, strains in interpersonal relationships, and a great loss of productivity.
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D001900:Boston; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007053:Ice; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000150:complications; D010146:Pain / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*
chemical_list: D007053:Ice